BACKGROUND Between 2001 and 2006, IUD use in Uganda stagnated at 0.2% among women of reproductive age (WRA) ages 15-49. By 2011, IUD use had increased slightly to 0.4%. Recent studies report a significant increase in IUD use to 3.8%, but it is still low. Because the IUD is a little-used method in Uganda, we assessed the acceptability of the IUD by surveying women about their perceptions, attitu...

All methods for solving linear or nonlinear systems of equations require the evaluation of residual vectors, most algorithms are based on Jacobian-vector products and many schemes involve vector-Jacobian products. Moreover, while only exact Newton methods form and factor the Jacobian explicitly, some information about the size of its elements or the structure of its spectrum appears to be indes...

One impediment to the use of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) receptor-targeted agents as antitumor drugs is the evolution of resistance, a common problem in cancer. On the contrary, many different kinds of drugs synergize with TRAIL in TRAIL-sensitive tumor cells, raising the question whether one can overcome resistance with the same drugs producing synergy. This...

The suprasegmental characteristics of non-native speech are generally described as differing from those of native speech. Recent work has shown that in addition to speaking at overall slower rates, non-native speakers in a reading task are more variable than native speakers in their speaking rate across utterances [1]. However, read speech may contain sources of variability that are specific to...

In early numerical development, children have to become familiar with the Arabic number system and its place-value structure. The present review summarizes and discusses evidence for language influences on the acquisition of the highly transparent structuring principles of digital-Arabic digits by means of its moderation through the transparency of the respective language's number word system. ...

It is commonplace for organisations to collect personal information to be processed and stored on their systems. Until recently, there was no comprehensive legislation that addressed the ‘processing’ of personal information by organisations in South Africa. The Protection of Personal Information Bill (“POPI”) was signed into law in November 2013 and is expected to come into effect, later this y...

OBJECTIVE There is evidence that non-English speakers in the United States receive lower quality health care and preventive services than English speakers. We tested the hypothesis that Spanish-speaking women would respond differently to an intervention to increase up-to-date status for cancer screening. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING A multisite randomized controlled trial showed that scripted tel...

splendid atchievement, than he who invents a dazzling theory." But we are, at the same time, to bear in mind, that the greatest theorists have, generally speaking, been the most accurate observers. We have only to take Cullen and Darwin, in our own country, for an exemplification of this remark. Chemistry has advanced more rapidly than medicine; and the reason of this, Dr. B. thinks, is because...